Artthe expressive or application of human creative skill and imagination in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, or in music, literature, or dance; art is created primarily for beauty and emotional power; and "holds art is anything the viewer or listener finds aesthetically pleasing." in Cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static is designed to take approximately four weeks; one week for each lesson. However, you can work at your own pace. One week for each lesson is adequate time for grasping the learning objectives.
Some art critics and enthusiasts believe it is not possible to have art without culture. Yet new investigations regarding the earliest humans are challenging that hypothesis. The earliest art has usually been associated with cave art. However, an article at NBC News gives us more reasons to ponder the art and culture connection. You may need to copy (Control C) and paste (Control V) the link into your browser. Skip the ads.
We cannot pinpoint exactly when complex culture became part of human activity; but art is such a big part of culture and cultural changes, that the two must have evolved very close together. Usually, when cultural changes take place, art plays an integral part in the changes brought about. Sometimes cultural changes usher in changes in art, but often it is in the reverse. Art, in many ways, may cause or inspire cultural changes.
Conversations about both art and culture are always a challenge. Here, we begin with visual art because we know “a picture is worth a thousand words!” That statement is much overused and mostly a cliche, but thirty thousand years ago, a picture may have been worth more than a thousand words. Especially so when we aren’t sure if the culture creating the art had a written languagea system of symbols that allow people to communicate with each other, also the MOST symbolic way that culture is passed down. As we view ancient cave art, as above, and try to decipher what the artist is trying to say, we begin to realize just how much worth a picture can have.
Art in Culture is designed to be a four-week course (but you can work at your own pace). Here, we barely begin to touch the surface of this fascinating subject. It is hoped that you will use this course to further explore art and culture. Researching on one’s own, the globalizationall nations and peoples are interconnected in today's world due to massive flow of goods and services, importation of labor, immigration, technology, finance capital, outsourcing of businesses, and diseases, etc.; globalization promotes rapid culture change and adaptations, which increasingly blurs the lines of cultural components of all art forms lends a new insight into how creativity shapes the world.
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evolutionthe gradual development of something from a simple to a more complex form; in nature the process by which different organisms develop and diversify from earlier forms during the history of the earth; Darwin's theory of natural selection seeks to explain the process of evolution of all organisms